Here's the story. Educate yourself if you feel so inclined.

A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish

So by the looks of things this article has been around for a little while, so why the fact that it's being sold now adds significantly to the debate is beyond me.

Regardless of it's relavence to the debate about Einstein's particular belief's is the debate about science vs. religion. For me it's never been too much of a debate, since I've never found too many scientific theories that have much of any friction with my religious beliefs. But what I find interesting is this part of the above article:

"Like many great scientists of the past, he is rather quirky about religion, and not always consistent from one period to another," Brooke said.

Many would condemn such eccentricity of theology, but if we acknowledge that they're smarter than us, then why do we think they're wrong when they do something we don't understand?

Here's a favorite quote for mine from the "stein":

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

With that theory, does creationism have a case for being taught in schools? Has anyone ever come up with a solid arguement for it being taught in schools? If he's so smart, why doesn't he know what a comb is?

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